A Narrative of the Expedition to Algiers in the Year 1816, under the Command of the Right Hon. Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: August 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781402188510
Subjects: Narrative,Expedition,Algiers,Africa,1816,Command,Admiral,Lord,Exmouth,Abraham,Salame; History / Africa; History / Egypt
First sentence: GREAT BRITAIN, being the first country in the world whose humane feelings induced her to turn her attention to the abolition of the detestable dealing in human beings, the Slave Trade; she, likewise, felt herself most deeply interested in the abolition of Christian slavery, and freeing her European brethren from the depth of misery, to which they had always been subjected by the savage rulers of the Barbary States: she at first sent her representative, Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth, to Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers, to treat with them upon the subject amicably.